Bent Street journal full run- journal has ceased to be published so this title is being held as books on shelf:

Bent Street 1 – ‘2017’ (the inaugural edition) covers same-sex marriage in 2017, health and education, the meaning of queer history and progress; as well as presenting the queer imagination as it follows its own lights, digressions, yearnings, and strange associations.

Editor: Tiffany Jones

From the Introduction : ‘Bent Street is a page for rainbow essayists, yarn spinners and queer theorists. It is a canvas for diverse doodlers and alternative artists. It is an ear for wrathful rants and interesting interviews, an eye for raw reflections and a mouth for personal opinions. Apart from creating a ‘Bent’ space, we are an annual space – a collection of works started, finished, or toyed with in the year in which we publish. Some pieces are therefore seeds of ideas, others are well grown or have already borne fruit.’


JOEL CREASEY
JILL JONES
GUY JAMES WHITWORTH
GENINE HOOK – The Child’s Best Interests? : Queer families and exclusionary marriage activism
TINA HEALY – Becoming Mick Sheehan
APRIL WHITE
JEAN TAYLOR – One Weekend in October
ASHLEY SIEVWRIGHT – Slightly Foxed
MANDY HENNINGHAM & TIFFANY JONES – Cut It Out: Rethinking surgery on intersex infants
DENNIS ALTMAN
STEVE RE PEREIRA – Cultural Mobility
RENEE BENNETT
SIMON COPLAND & MARY LOU RASMUSSEN – Safe Schools, Marriage Equality and LGBT Youth Suicide
QUINN EADES
ERROL BRAY
BLAIR ARCHBOLD – Freedom
NIKKI SULLIVAN & CRAIG MIDDLETON – Queer/ing Objects
LUCILLE KERR – Cancer Screening : Cancer Screening for the Trans and Gender Diverse Community
DANIEL MARSHALL
NADIA BAILEY
DOUG POLLARD
SALLY CONNING – One Day
BRIGITTE LEWIS – Kneel
DANIEL WITTHAUS
MIRA SCHLOSBERG
CHRISTOPHER BRYANT
MICHAEL BERNARD KELLY – Greetings from New York
JESS JONES
RODNEY CROOME – The Long Road Home

Bent Street 2:

Bent Street 2 covers the afterglow of the passing into law of same-sex marriage; the ongoing struggle for rights and recognition; reflections on the past; as well as presenting the queer imagination as it follows its own lights, digressions, yearnings, and strange associations.

Edited by TIFFANY JONES

David Wojnarowicz’s Lips by Marcus O’Donnell
Where did you go? by Brigitte Lewis
Freddie and Me by Steve RE Pereira
The Brotherhood by Eric Turton
Game Changer by Peter Mitchell
An Invitation for Arvo Tea on the Verandah by Jean Taylor
Mara Maya Devi by Guy James Whitworth
Peter de Waal by Guy James Whitworth
Candy Royalle by Guy James Whitworth
A case for rainbow atheism by Geoff Allshorn
2018 – The Year in Queer: Refusal Tweets – Tiffany Jones
A locked closet: LGBTI rights around the world – Dennis Altman.
Queering the Classroom – Rebecca Ryall – an examination of heteronormativity and cisnormativity in the Catholic school context.
The KINQ Manifesto – Craig Middleton & Nikki Sullivan discuss how Knowledge Industries Need Queering.
Safe Spaces – a new report on LGBTIQ+ Muslims – Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
Ink & Vinyl Therapy – Martin Roberts
Life writing as an outlet for LGBTIQA+ youth by Roz Bellamy
Gender in the early childhood setting by Rachel Chapman
Intersex People & Internalised Corrective Bodily Bias by Mandy Henningham and Tiffany Jones
Love’s Pure Light – A Refection on the Passage of Marriage Equality by Michael Bernard Kelly
Jennifer Power – a lesson in Queer: interview with a lesbian Mum
Guy James Whitworth – on masculinity and its subversions
Peter Mitchell talks about his memoir Fragments through the Epidemic
Lucetta Kam is the author of Shanghai Lalas: Female Tongzhi Communities and Politics in Urban China
Tina Healy is an advocate, peer support worker and an elder in the transgender community.
Ashley Sievwright – talking about his new novel and the idea of ‘Australian Gothic.
A Place That Should Be Home: A Conversation with Steve RE Pereira
Jeff Herd is a Melbourne-based musician who has just released his debut album Boy Down …
Young Adult Fiction in #20gayteen: A Conversation with Adrienne Kisner
poetry
Peter Mitchell – Three Poems
Aurea Kochanowski – Tasseography
René Bennett – Post-Optimistic
Tina Healy – We Were The Ones That Went Before
Madison Griffiths – Three Poems
short fiction
Tramming it by Jean Taylor
Island Fragments by Andy Murdoch
Conga Line by Holly Zwalf
Two Wild Outlaws by James May
A Dolphin in the Ganges – a short story by Steve R.E. Pereria
Excerpt from Slightly Foxed, a novel in development by Ashley Sievwright
Excerpt from Dear Rachel Maddow by Adrienne Kisner


Bent Street 3

Bent Street 3 sees the publication covering exciting developments within the broader Australian queer community, including the strengthening of public displays of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQA+ pride and visibility, views on ‘gay conversion’, historical perspectives on Stonewall, queer cabaret, religious discrimination, and much more. Bent Street 3 brings you ‘The Year in Queer 2019’.

Edited by Tiffany Jones.

Content:
1st person
InsideOUT—Peter Waples-Crowe
Out on the Fringes—Stephanie Amir
Mel Simpson — art
above: Alyssa Edwards by Mel Simpson
Interview—Andrew Farrell
Indigenous Queer Studies academic, Andrew Farrell, a Wodi Wodi descendant from Jerrinja Aboriginal community on the South Coast of NSW, describes their development of world-first Aboriginal Queer University Units.
The Prince of Redfern – Bee Cruse
Jamie James — photographs Koori Gras 2019
Jamie James’ pictures of Koori Gras 2019 include the cover image for Bent Street 3 (Nova Gina, Black Nulla, Koori Gras 2019) – and (below) Mad B, Black Nulla, Koori Gras, Carriageworks. Images copyright Jamie James.
Since Coming Out—Jodie Hare
The Womyn’s Circus—Jean Taylor
Hannah Buttsworth — art
Renascence by Hannah Buttsworth
Interview—Maude Davey
Ayman Kaake—photographs:
Birth of the red butterflies – Ayman Kaake
At home in this place—Stevie Lane
Leatherman-made climate change—Guy James Whitworth
The Dykemobile—Ashleigh Hardcastle
Samuel Luke Beatty—In Transit: Space, Time
essays
Still Here, Still Queer, Still Invisible—Mandy Henningham
The Church Herself—Clare Monagle
Ending LGBT conversion practices—Timothy W Jones, Jennifer Power, Tiffany M Jones
Rainbow Warriors Unite! —Alison Thorne
Proud 2 Play: LGBT+ Inclusion in Australian Sport—Ryan Storr
Frank Bonnici – art
Unnamed by Frank Bonnici
Pride marches are contested space—Lisa Farrell
What LGBT parents want in schools—Trent Mann, Tiffany Jones
Everyone is south of China—Jason Li
Jake Cruz—art
Froot Loop – by Jake Cruz
‘Sodom Today, Gomorrah the world!’—Geoff Allshorn
2019: the year in queer
poetry
Renovator’s delight—Terry Jaensch
Ext. Park. Night.—Terry Jaensch
Birds that haunt me—Ashley Williams
Creek—Michelle Bishop
Comfortable—Samuel Luke Beatty
Colours End—Xavier
cab thoughts: EMP ty—Anna Leah D. Luna-Raven
Trading Saints— (Three poems) Jocelyn Deane
Her Homophobic Husbands—Reese Downing
Two poems—Stuart Barnes
#CBD—Adele Tan
fiction
Road Ode – Cat Cotsell
The Arrangement—Henry von Doussa
Pete—Gavriil Aleksandrs
Boring—Lionel Wright
Kim Leutwyler—art
Circumstances beyond our control—John Bartlett

Bent Street 4.1

Bent Street 4.1—Love from a Distance shines a light on the role of technologies in shaping human intimacy within the broader frame of COVID-19 and lockdown. Writers, academics, artists and poets reflect on the role that technologies, old and new, play in mediating human intimacy and shaping queer culture. Bent Street 4.1 is edited by Jennifer Power, Henry von Doussa, and Timothy W. Jones
Introduction – Jennifer Power, Henry von Doussa, Timothy W. Jones

INTERVIEWS
Intimacy and Unexpected Technologies – Suzanne Fraser
Intimacy, Technology and Emojis – Amanda Gesselman
Digital Intimacy, Gender and Sexuality – Jamie Hakim
Phone Sex – Henry von Doussa
ESSAYS
My Queer Love Bot – by Jennifer Power
This Public Feeling – by Marcus O’Donnell Intimacy and technologies: a pre-history
Digital Intimacy: an end to the tyranny of distance – by Gary Dowsett
Intimacy in Online Spaces for Bi+ People – by Emiel Maliepaard
Out in the Outer Worlds – by Nessie Smith A new online game featuring perhaps the very first openly asexual characters.
D/s in the Everyday: Digital technologies and the dynamics of Dominance and submission – by Rainicorn
Life, but not as we know it: Star Trek, fan culture, slash fiction and the queering of Starfleet Command – by Geoff Allshorn
Viral Lesbians – by Tiffany Jones
FIRST PERSON
Not so Distant – by Dennis Altman
Body in Retrograde – by Samuel Luke Beatty
Architecture at Night – by Michelle Dicinoski
Tiny Essential Victories – by Guy James Whitworth
Dark POMO: PanDEMic in Melbourne – by Jean Taylor
Pro-Po: Policing Productivity in the Midst of a Pandemic – by Jake Cruz
Loose Threads – by Max Hayward
A Box of Unused Masks – by Holly Zwalf
Overhead – by Elijah El Kahale
POETRY
Couch scene – by Cat Cotsell
About Me – Georgia Banks
Touch – by Tina Healy
Offline – by Casey Scanlon
King Root – by Brigitte Lewis
asleep in my arms – by Rob Wallis
FICTION
Nick’s Story Mode – by Ava Redman
Patchouli – by Heath John Ramsay

Bent Street 4.2
Kiss My Apocalypse edited by Tiffany Jones
Introduction—Tiffany Jones
Sam Elkin—Recommended by Kerry
Indiah Money—Sight for Sore Eyes
Charlotte Allingham -Here to Stay
Jude Munro—Pride Centre – Interview
Firdhan Aria Wijaya – Seeking our voices in heteronormative society
Steph Amir—Cash, Handshakes, and Crowded Trains
Mel Simpson – a quiet afternoon
Jean Taylor—Déjà vu Diary
Andrew McNamara—Facetime—art
Jodie Hare—London Lockdown
Jennifer Power – Negotiating freedom and constraint in 2020
Tiffany Jones—2020: The Year in Queer
Frank Bonnici – Tears Behind the Mask
Guy James Whitworth—Tay Tay
Is Taylor Swift the Queer icon we need right now?
Alison Thorne—Policing, Protest, and the Pandemic
Rodney Croome—Another Word for Hope
Ian Seal—Many Coloured Sky
Edwina Shaw—As if …
Erin Riley—Periwinkle Blue
Gordon Thompson – 2020
Derek Ho—Unspoken
Gina Ward—Goodbye To All That?
James May—Ending HIV: Don’t Believe the Hype
Ayman Barbaresco—Limitless Boundaries
Blair Archbold—My Milkshake
Yanni Thoraval—Creative Zen
Baburam Poudel—Dreaming Big
ESSAYS
Hendri Yulius Wijaya—Torn Apart: The Liminal Life of Queer Studies in Indonesia
Marcus O’Donnell – Derek Jarman’s Queer Resilience
Derek Jarman – Fuck me blind, 1993, oil-on-canvas, 251x179cm. Collection: Julia Muggenburg
Hannah Gillard—Diversity Rules
Max Hayward—A Shiftable Museum
POETRY
Rob Wallis
Henry von Doussa – AIDS doily
Leila Lois
John Bartlett
Mark Anthony Cayanan
Bron Bateman
Cat Cotsell
Adele Aria
Michele Saint-Yves
Gemma Rose
Zachary DB Smith
Shivani Preston
Heath John Ramsay
Penn O’Brien
Stephanie Russell
FICTION
Jan Prior—Archipelago
Zachary Pryor—Telling
Andy Murdoch—The Waters of Jordan, and the Waters of Babylon
Suz Mawer—Welcome to the Galaxy
Peter Mitchell—True North
Sharryn Ryan—Gone
Artists and image makers whose work appears in this edition of bent street include: Neika Lehman, Isabella Whawhai Waru, Caleb Thaiday, and Jazz Money; Derek Jarman, Howard Sooley; Luke David; Peter Casamento; Gordon Thompson.

Bent Street 5.1 – Soft Borders, Hard Edges, a special edition focusing on the trans and gender diverse community
Edited by Sam Elkin, Yves Rees and Tiffany Jones, this special midyear 2021 edition includes contributions by:
Bron Richardson, Jordie Slonim, Jamie James, Kait Fenwick, Sav Zwickl, Damien W. Riggs, Carla A. Pfeffer, Ruth Pearce, Sally Hines, Francis Ray White, Ruth Dahl, Samuel Luke Beatty, Tazz Hislop, Adele Aria, Raewyn Connell, Brooke Murray, Lucy Nicholas, Clair Brianz, Purity, Geoff Allshorn, Mel Romero, Bryson Charles, good judy, Stacey Stokes, Teague Leigh, Anastasia Le, Ruq, Alex Lee, Ryan Gustafsson, Blair Archbold, Kathy Mansfield, G. Jae Curmi, Noah Silvereye, Cat Cotsell, Erin Riley, Kai Ash, Kin Francis, Guy James Whitworth, Reid Marginalia, Stevie Lane, Susan Lardner & Jessica Ward, Tiarn, CB Mako, Nat Hollis, Rowan Richardson, Jaxson Wearing, Nate McCarthy, Theo Dunne, Elwin Schok, Maddox Gifford, Sam Elkin, Yves Rees, and Tiffany Jones.

‘… Sam Elkin and Yves Rees from the Spilling the T Collective bring a special trans and gender diverse community focus, with essays, poetry, polemic, memoir, fiction, and imagery that explores and celebrates gender diversity … trans creatives bring an acute understanding of how embodied subjects construct and perform gendered selves – an understanding that, though sometimes born of pain and trauma, and sometimes met in joyful euphoria – creates memorable art … foregrounding nuances often eluding the cis gaze …’